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Rushall Canal
The Rushall Canal boasts some of the best kept countryside, gardens and lock keepers cottages anywhere on the BCN.
The Rushall Canal was built in 1847 to link the Daw End Branch with the Tame Valley Canal in an effort to capture the coal trade from Cannock Mines. Starting from Longwood Junction, the canal drops some 65 feet through nine locks and was nicknamed ‘The Ganzies’ by boatmen of old, due to the thick Guernsey style jumpers they resorted to wearing on the more exposed stretches of waterway.
Pubs are a plenty along the Rushall Canal. Try the Manor Arms on Park Road an old favourite of the canal bargees.
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